At One Again Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BABA ACAC DEDE BFBG HIHI A JAJA DKDK BLBL BMBN KOKO KPKP P QAQA QAQA BKBK KAKA BKBK KRKS BTBT D QAQA ASAS DUDU N HKHK VNVN BGBG AVAV ROR AAAA QOQ K DWDW GAGA KDKD AKAK QAQA K KAKA DVDV BABA

I NOONDAYA
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Two angry men in heat they severB
And one goes home by a harvest fieldA
Hope's nought quoth he and vain endeavorB
I said and say it I will not yieldA
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As for this wrong no art can mend itA
The bond is shiver'd that held us twainC
Old friends we be but law must end itA
Whether for loss or whether for gainC
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Yon stream is small full slow its wendingD
But winning is sweet but right is fineE
And shoal of trout or willowy bendingD
Though Law be costly I'll prove them mineE
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His strawberry cow slipped loose her tetherB
And trod the best of my barley downF
His little lasses at play togetherB
Pluck'd the poppies my boys had grownG
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What then Why naught She lack'd of reasonH
And they my little ones match them wellI
But this Nay all things have their seasonH
And 'tis my season to curb and quellI
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II SUNSETA
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So saith he when noontide fervors flout himJ
So thinks when the West is amber and redA
When he smells the hop vines sweet about himJ
And the clouds are rosy overheadA
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While slender and tall the hop poles goingD
Straight to the West in their leafy linesK
Portion it out into chambers glowingD
And bask in red day as the sun declinesK
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Between the leaves in his latticed arborB
He sees the sky as they flutter and turnL
While moor'd like boats in a golden harborB
The fleets of feathery cloudlets burnL
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Withdrawn in shadow he thinketh overB
Harsh thoughts the fruit laden trees amongM
Till pheasants call their young to coverB
And cushats coo them a nursery songN
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And flocks of ducks forsake their sedgesK
Wending home to the wide barn doorO
And loaded wains between the hedgesK
Slowly creep to his threshing floorO
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Slowly creep And his tired sensesK
Float him over the magic streamP
To a world where Fancy recompensesK
Vengeful thoughts with a troubled dreamP
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III THE DREAMP
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What's this a wood What's that one callethQ
Calleth and cryeth in mortal dreadA
He hears men strive then somewhat fallethQ
Help me neighbor I'm hard besteadA
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The dream is strong the voice he knowethQ
But when he would run his feet are fastA
And death lies beyond and no man goethQ
To help and he says the time is pastA
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His feet are held and he shakes all overB
Nay they are free he has found the placeK
Green boughs are gather'd what is't they coverB
I pray you look on the dead man's faceK
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You that stand by he saith and cowersK
Man or Angel to guard the deadA
With shadowy spear and a brow that lowersK
And wing points reared in the gloom o'erheadA
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I dare not look He wronged me neverB
Men say we differ'd they speak amissK
This man and I were neighbors everB
I would have ventured my life for hisK
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But fast my feet were fast with tanglesK
Ay words but they were not sharp I trowR
Though parish feuds and vestry wranglesK
O pitiful sight I see thee nowS
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If we fell out 'twas but foul weatherB
After long shining O bitter cupT
What dead why man we play'd togetherB
Art dead ere a friend can make it upT
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IV THE WAKINGD
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Over his head the chafer hummethQ
Under his feet shut daisies bendA
Waken man the enemy comethQ
Thy neighbor counted so long a friendA
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He cannot waken and firm and steadyA
The enemy comes with lowering browS
He looks for war his heart is readyA
His thoughts are bitter he will not bowS
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He fronts the seat the dream is flingingD
A spell that his footsteps may not breakU
But one in the garden of hops is singingD
The dreamer hears it and starts awakeU
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V A SONGN
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Walking apart she thinks none listenH
And now she carols and now she stopsK
And the evening star begins to glistenH
Atween the lines of blossoming hopsK
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Sweetest Mercy your mother taught youV
All uses and cares that to maids belongN
Apt scholar to read and to sew she thought youV
She did not teach you that tender songN
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The lady sang in her charm d bowerB
Sheltered and safe under roses blownG
'Storm cannot touch me hail nor showerB
Where all alone I sit all aloneG
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My bower The fair Fay twined it round meA
Care nor trouble can pierce it throughV
But once a sigh from the warm world found meA
Between two leaves that were bent with dewV
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And day to night and night to morrowR
Though soft as slumber the long hours woreO
I looked for my dower of love of sorrowR
Is there no more no more no more '-
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Give her the sun sweet light and dulyA
To walk in shadow nor chide her partA
Give her the rose and truly trulyA
To wear its thorn with a patient heartA
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Misty as dreams the moonbeam lyethQ
Chequered and faint on her charm d floorO
The lady singeth the lady sighethQ
'Is there no more no more no more '-
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VI LOVERSK
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A crash of boughs one through them breakingD
Mercy is startled and fain would flyW
But e'en as she turns her steps o'ertakingD
He pleads with her Mercy it is but IW
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Mercy he touches her hand unbiddenG
The air is balmy I pray you stayA
Mercy Her downcast eyes are hiddenG
And never a word she has to sayA
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Till closer drawn her prison'd fingersK
He takes to his lips with a yearning strongD
And she murmurs low that late she lingersK
Her mother will want her and think her longD
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Good mother is she then honor dulyA
The lightest wish in her heart that stirsK
But there is a bond yet dearer trulyA
And there is a love that passeth hersK
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Mercy Mercy Her heart attendethQ
Love's birthday blush on her brow lies sweetA
She turns her face when his own he bendethQ
And the lips of the youth and the maiden meetA
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VII FATHERSK
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Move through the bowering hops O loversK
Wander down to the golden WestA
But two stand mute in the shade that coversK
Your love and youth from their souls opprestA
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A little shame on their spirits stealingD
A little pride that is loth to sueV
A little struggle with soften'd feelingD
And a world of fatherly care for youV
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One says To this same running waterB
May be Neighbor your claim is bestA
And one Your son has kissed my daughterB
Let the matters between us restA

Jean Ingelow



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